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5.Make sure “Cycle” is activated, set the left locator to 2 
and the right locator to 18.
This will loop or cycle between bars 2 and 18.
6.On the Transport panel, make sure “Mix (MIDI)” is se-
lected for the “Cycle Record Mode”.
This will allow us to record the electric guitar, and as each cycle repeats 
a new take will be created. We will then choose the best take to keep as 
our guitar line.
7.Activate the Record Enable and Monitor buttons on 
the “Elec Guitar” track....

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6.When you are done recording, click “Stop”.
You should see the recorded audio events appearing below each other 
as separate takes.
7.Click the lower border of the “Guitar 2” track and drag 
downwards to resize it larger.
This allows you to see the audio takes much better.
8.Deactivate the Record Enable and Monitor buttons.
9.Open the Preferences dialog (Editing–Audio page) 
and make sure that the option “Treat Muted Audio Events 
like Deleted” is activated.
10.On the...

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Event operations
In this section we’ll learn how to edit events or parts. This 
includes rename, resize, split, glue, move, copy, repeat, 
mute, erase and adding a fade.
Renaming
If we look at the audio events that we recorded earlier, we 
notice that the bass track has an audio event on it called 
“Audio 01_01”. This is because the name of the track was 
originally “Audio 01” and the suffix “_01” means that it is 
the 1st audio file to be recorded on the track. The second...

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Splitting
Splitting is used to cut events. You can split or cut an event 
wherever you want or split them evenly to bars and beats. 
Splitting with “Snap” off
Splitting with “Snap” off allows you to cut anywhere with-
out locking to any kind of reference like bars and beats.
1.Choose the Split tool.
2.Make sure “Snap” is off (not highlighted).
Snap allows you to edit to various time frames. The most common one is 
bars and beats. Meaning you can cut exactly to the bar with...

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5.Next, right click again and choose “Automation Mode” 
so that the automation tools are hidden from view.
Now we can see enough for us to continue on with the Split tool.
6.With most of the snap features in view, choose “Grid” 
from the Snap mode pop-up menu to the right of the Snap 
button.
This means we’ll be snapping to a grid.
7.Next choose “Bar” as the “Grid Type”.
This means you will split to bars.
8.You can now split the “Elec Guitar_01” event pre-
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Moving events
1.Choose the Object Selection tool.
2.Move all the events in the Project window from bar 2 
to bar 1. Click and hold the mouse on an empty area of the 
Project window. Drag to create a selection of all the 
events. When you release the mouse button, all the events 
will be selected.
3.With all the events selected, click and drag them to 
bar 1.
4.Click on an empty area of the Project window so that 
no event is selected.
Copying events
Copying can be used to...

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3.Click and hold the selected events and drag to the po-
sition you wish the copy to be made. Then release the 
mouse button.
Don’t worry about the “Scissor” icon that appears. As soon as you click 
and hold on the event you are copying it switches to an arrow with a “+” 
sign indicating that you are copying.
Repeating
Repeats are great for repeating something over and over 
directly after the event you want to repeat.
1.Click the bass event with the Object Selection tool....

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3.To un-mute an event, click on the muted event with the 
Mute tool again and it returns to normal.
If you drag with the Mute tool you can mute a number of 
events at a time. Equally this will un-mute events that are 
muted.
Erasing
1.Choose the Erase tool.
2.Click on the events you wish to erase.
Adding a fade
You can add a fade to an event to give the effect that the 
event is fading in or fading out.
1.Choose the Object Selection tool.
2.Click on the event you wish to add...

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3.Clicking further on will create more points.
As you create more and more envelope points, you are adjusting the vol-
ume of the event over time. The waveform reflects the changes you make.
Processing audio
Cubase has the ability to make changes to the audio in 
more ways than splitting and resizing. You can normalize, 
reverse, pitch shift and time stretch, to name a few. For a 
full explanation on processing audio, see the chapter “Au-
dio processing and Functions” in the...